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Norway's skydiving champ in Freefall video

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Norway's skydiving champ in Freefall video
Martin Kristensen shows how he can use his body to control his movement. Photo: Screen Grab/YouTube

Watch this dizzying video of world skydiving champion Martin Kristensen spinning, dipping, swooping above the beautiful landscapes of Voss, near Bergen (just ignore the awful script).

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The video, Freefall, begins, "The past is a place which only exists in our memory," and goes on to depict skydiving as a kind of philosophical quest. 
 
It was part-funded by Skydive Voss, Norway’s largest skydiving club, and the Vossvind indoor skydiving centre — which charges 6,400 Norwegian kroner ($787) for just an hour in its vertical wind tunnel. 
 
But the footage of him zipping around in the tunnel makes that almost seem worth the money. 
 

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